[Whi] Advertisement for Spring AGU Union Session relevant to WHI

[Whole Heliosphere Interval]

We invite you to submit your abstract to the AGU Union Session U06 at  
the Spring AGU meeting in Toronto (May 24-27) -- the deadline for the  
abstracts March 4.


FOCUS:  Questions that link together the Sun’s evolution, the future  
states of the Earth’s atmosphere and the physical processes common to  
planetary atmospheres.



This session focuses on the processes that connect changes at the  
solar surface with features in the geospace and planetary environments  
that will ultimately lead to a better understanding of climate  
variability, and, in fact, of any large-scale complex system. Given  
the importance of these issues, a closer interaction between  
atmospheric, planetary and space scientists is needed (and supported  
here) to share information from different perspectives and evaluate  
the state of our knowledge and modeling capabilities.  Please join us  
in an interesting interdisciplinary interaction.



A FEW EXAMPLES OF FOCUS ISSUES:



-- Chemistry and dynamics of polar vortices on the Earth and other  
planets and their role in bringing space weather effects to lower  
altitudes

-- System-level response of the heliosphere and planetary environments  
to solar wind high speed streams, or coronal mass ejections and  
resulting long term trends

-- Predictions of future (or explanations of past) solar variability  
and their impacts at Earth and other planets

-- Reasons for the unusual aspects of the current solar minimum and  
the associated responses in geospace and other planetary environments

-- New information about long-term space and atmospheric climate trends

-- New insights about how solar irradiance changes are amplified to  
drive climate variability at the Earth and nonlinear aspects at other  
planets.



INVITED PROGRAM


Invited speakers (listed below) have agreed to summarize the state of  
our knowledge in key areas and attempt to address questions about: the  
future of our Sun, long-term predictions of solar variability, space  
weather effects at Earth and other planets, response of the neutral  
and ionized components of Earth and planetary atmospheres to solar  
variability, and the ability of current models to assess the  
consequences for Earth's climate as well as the evolution of planetary  
environments.



Ted Shepherd

Marv Geller

Scott Bailey

Joanna Haigh

Dan Baker
Chris Russell

Sam Yee


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/whi/attachments/20090219/b6921f8d/attachment.html